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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 172.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 72.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Art in New England: Paintings, Drawings, Prints from Private Collections in New England, 1939, no. 62, pl. 33.

Art Gallery of Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of Allied Merchant Seamen, 1944, no. 30 (ill.).

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Painting, 1950–51, no. 29 (ill.).

Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, El Greco Exhibition, 1986, no. 45.

Leningrad (St. Petersburg), State Hermitage Museum, Masterpieces of Western European Painting of the XVIth–XXth Centuries from the Museums of the European Countries and USA, 1989, no. 7 (ill.).

Norfolk, Va., Chrysler Museum of Art, The Genius of El Greco: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998 (no cat.).

Publication History

Manuel B. Cossío, El Greco, Madrid, 1908, pp. 353, 602, no. 325; rev. ed. by Natalia Cossío de Jiménez, Barcelona, 1972, pp. 217–18, 361, no. 54.

August L. Mayer, El Greco: Eine Einfu_hrung in das Leben und Wirken des Domenico Theotocoupuli, Munich, 1911, pp. 54, 71 (ill.), 84; rev. ed., 1916, pp. 27–28, 53, pl. 62.

Hugo Kehrer, Die Kunst des Greco, Munich, 1914, pp. 41–42, 93, pl. 19.

August L. Mayer, “Die Ausstellung älterer spanischer Meister in den
Grafton Galleries zu London,” Zeitschrift fu_r bildende Kunst 25 (1914), p. 71.

August L. Mayer, “Paintings by El Greco in America,” Art in America 4 (1916), pp. 253–54, 257.

August L. Mayer, Dominico Theotocopuli, El Greco, Munich, 1926, p. 9, no. 46a, pl. 44.

F[rancisco] de B[orja de] San Román [y Fernández], “De la vida del Greco,” Archivo español de arte y arqueología 3 (1927), pp. 298–99.

J[ens] F[erdinand] Willumsen, La Jeunesse du peintre El Greco, vol. 2, Paris, 1927, pp. 657–58 (ill.), pl. 101.

“Christ in the House of Simon by El Greco,” Art News 27, 21 (1929), p. 1 (ill.).

Bulletin Art Institute of Chicago 24 (1930), p. 24 (cover ill.).

Frank Rutter, El Greco (1541–1614), New York, 1930, p. 100, no. 93, pl. 83.

Irene Weir, “A Cursive Review of Recent Museum Activities and Exhibitions
Outside New York,” Parnassus 2, 5 (1930), p. 38.

Jean Cassou, Le Gréco, Paris, 1931, p. 58.

August L. Mayer, El Greco, Berlin, 1931, pp. 116–19, fig. 97.

W[illiam] G[eorge] C[onstable], “New England Collections,” Burlington Magazine 75 (1937), p. 77.

Raymond Escholier, Greco, Paris, 1937, pp. 170–71.

M[aurice] Legendre and A[lbert] Hartmann, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Called El Greco, Paris, 1937, p. 171 (ill.).

Ludwig Goldscheider, El Greco, London, 1938, pl. 232; 2nd ed., 1949, pl. 195; 3rd ed., 1954, pl. 161.

Oskar Hagen, Patterns and Principles of Spanish Art, rev. ed., Madison, Wis.,
1943, p. 143.

Elizabeth du Gué Trapier, “The Son of El Greco,” Notes Hispanic 3 (1943), p. 12.

“Coast to Coast in Art: Toronto,” Canadian Art 1 (1944), p. 117 (ill.).

José Camón Aznar, Dominico Greco, vol. 2, Madrid, 1950, pp. 900–02, 1360, no. 77, fig. 700; rev. ed., vol. 2, 1970, pp. 903–05, 1341, no. 79, fig. 763.

“Recent Acquisitions,” Pictures on Exhibit 12, 4 (1950), pp. 44–45 (ill.).

Frederick A. Sweet, “Tintoretto and El Greco,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 44 (1950), pp. 22–26 (ill.).

Bertina Suida Manning, “El Greco y el arte italiano,” Archivo español de arte 24 (1951), pp. 204–05, pl. 3.

Walter Nigg, Maler des Ewigen: Meditationen u_ber religiöse Kunst,
Zurich and Stuttgart, 1951, pp. 212–13.

Louis Réau, Iconographie de l’art chrétien, vol. 2, pt. 2, Paris, 1956, p. 328.

Antonia Vallentin, El Greco, trans. Andrew Révai and Robin Chancellor, Garden City, N.Y., 1955, pp. 240–42, pl. 79.

The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1956, p. 29.

Paul Guinard, El Greco, trans. James Emmons, New York, 1956, pp. 44–45, 100 (ill.).

Halldor Soehner, “Greco in Spanien,” Mu_nchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, 3rd ser., 8 (1957) pp. 180–81, 183–84, 186.

Juan Antonio Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, p. 206, no. 1419.

Karl Ipser, El Greco: Der Maler des christlichen Weltbildes, Berlin, 1960, pp.
276–84 (ill.).

Hugo Kehrer, Greco in Toledo: Höhe und Vollendung, 1577–1614, Stuttgart, 1960, pp. 65–67, pl. 72.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, pp. 96 (ill.), 205–06.

Pál Kelemen, El Greco Revisited: Candia, Venice, Toledo, New York, 1961, pp. 129–30, pl. 81c.

Harold E. Wethey, El Greco and His School, Princeton, 1962, vol. 1, p. 50, fig. 182, vol. 2, p. 45, no. 65; rev. Spanish ed., trans. Carlos Cid, Madrid, 1967, vol. 1, p. 66, pl. 162, vol. 2, p. 60, no. 65.

Georg J. Reimann, El Greco, Leipzig, 1966, pp. 52–53, pl. 56.

Tiziana Frati, L’opera completa del Greco, Milan, 1969, p. 121, no. 159b (ill.).

José Gudiol, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, El Greco, 1541–1614, Barcelona, 1971, pp. 277, 356, no. 231, fig. 257; Eng. ed., trans. Kenneth Lyons, New York, 1973.

Jacques Lassaigne, El Greco, trans. Jane Brenton, London, 1973, p. 170, fig. 128.

John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York, 1979, p. 154.

Edi Baccheschi, El Greco, trans. Jane Carroll, New York, 1980, p. 88 (ill.), no. 141a.

Lucien Schwob, Fulgrance et magie picturale: Le Greco, Velasquez, Lausanne, 1984, p. 43.

A Portrait of an Era: Rue Winterbotham Carpenter and the Arts Club of Chicago, exh. cat. Arts Club of Chicago, 1983, n.p.

Art Institute of Chicago, The Joseph Winterbotham Collection: A Living Tradition, essay by Lyn DelliQuadri, Chicago, 1986, pp. 12, 37 (ill.), 56, 62; repr. Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, 2 (1994), pp. 107, 186 (ill.).

José Álvarez Lopera, El Greco: La obra esencial, Madrid, 1993, p. 293, no. 304.

Richard G. Mann in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 67-72, ill.

Ownership History

Possibly in the artist’s possession at the time of his death, 1614 [three versions of this subject were recorded in the 1621 inventory of all the goods owned by El Greco’s son, Jorge Manuel Theotocopoulos, who was his father’s sole heir; however, no work of this subject appears in El Greco’s own estate inventory; see San Román 1927]; possibly by descent to his son, Jorge Manuel Theotocopoulos (d. 1631), Toledo [the 1621 inventory of Jorge Manuel’s possessions, transcribed in San Román 1927, includes entries for three versions of this subject, listed as items 123–25].. Probably Guinea, Bilbao.4 Plasencia, Bilbao, before 1908 [according to Cossío 1908; this information cannot be verified, however]. Alexandre Berthier, Prince of Wagram, Paris, by 1908 [Cossio 1908 and Mayer 1926]; Galerie H. O. Miethke, Vienna, by 1911 Mayer 1911, p. 84]; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, by 1914 [Kehrer 1914, p. 93; Mayer 1914]. Joseph Winterbotham, Jr., Burlington, Vt., Feb. 7, 1929 [Art News 1929]; on loan to the Art Institute in 1930 [Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 1930]; acquired by the Art Institute as a purchase of the Winterbotham Fund, 1949.